17 Aug 2020 34 Comments
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Today for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge We have been asked to write about a Katydid. We do not have Katydids in England but I have seen and heard them when on holiday abroad. Today I have written a Haiku about the image Frank gave us and also Tanka.
HAIKU
There on the worktop
Katydid, double trouble
Optical magic
TANKA
Never found at home
Wrong Tropic,wrong nature zone.
Exotica
A harbinger of Autumn
Katydid is not found here.
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Aug 17, 2020 @ 06:48:41
Funny. I haven’t heard of Katydids for ages. Yet this weekend, three times!
Good job, sis 💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 06:52:02
Thank you Sis ,this is the second time I heard this creatures called Katydids, I had to look them up last year 💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 07:05:12
🥰
Aug 17, 2020 @ 06:58:57
Terrific Willow Katydids back in fashion..xx♥
Aug 17, 2020 @ 07:02:52
Yes indeed Sally, their name always reminds me of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey’s books What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next which I read as a child 🧐 💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 07:37:39
Nosalgia… It would be great to see some of the books from our childhoods reissued xxx
Aug 17, 2020 @ 08:51:06
Yes it would, did you ever read What Katy Did?
Aug 17, 2020 @ 09:02:11
Not when I was a child Willow but when we lived in Texas I looked after a little girl after school for some months until her father came home from work.. I was not allowed to work so he paid me in wine (that’s another story). He had a family copy and she and I would read the first book which is how I came to meet Katy.. Susan Coolidge was certainly prolific and she would be the J.K Rowling of the late 19th century.. a tough time for women writers.. xx
Aug 17, 2020 @ 10:09:26
Oh! Yes indeed a good writer too. That sounds fine being paid in wine. Did you mention in your letters to your Dad about this job as I seem to remember mention of it before. Going back to Susan Coolidge I have not heard of How I Met Katy.💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 11:38:19
Hi Willow .. yes I have mentioned in the letter, well spotted.. and wine is always very welcome lol.. xx♥
Aug 17, 2020 @ 12:04:37
Yes I bet it was 💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 12:51:25
That is great Love the picture
Stay well and laugh when you can
Aug 17, 2020 @ 15:22:16
Thank you 💜
Aug 17, 2020 @ 14:45:42
I never know the difference between all the different green things with long back legs. They sing at night anyway.
Aug 17, 2020 @ 15:22:43
Yes indeed they do 😁
Aug 17, 2020 @ 15:28:05
🙂
Aug 17, 2020 @ 17:09:52
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: Willow’s latest haiku and #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge!
Aug 17, 2020 @ 19:33:40
Thank you Frank that was fun ☺️
Aug 17, 2020 @ 21:41:23
💜
Aug 19, 2020 @ 07:24:54
Fab poems. So is that a grasshopper?
Aug 19, 2020 @ 07:28:14
Thank you, yes it’s either a grass hopper or a cricket 🦗 💜
Aug 20, 2020 @ 18:38:31
So fun, Willow. I didn’t know this little bug either. ❤
Aug 20, 2020 @ 19:57:13
It has such a lovely name dosen’t it 💜
Aug 20, 2020 @ 22:08:11
Thay make that sound, “katydid,” is what I read.
Aug 20, 2020 @ 22:25:01
Lol really 😁
Aug 21, 2020 @ 01:19:49
I know right? 🤦🏼♀️ They are a type of grasshopper, I believe.
Aug 21, 2020 @ 06:46:57
Or cricket 🦗 they are cute whatever 🙂
Aug 29, 2020 @ 21:37:15
Thank you 💜
Aug 31, 2020 @ 00:53:56
Not sure if katydids are around here either. Crickets for sure. Nice poetry duo!
Aug 31, 2020 @ 06:16:01
Thank you, we don’t have them here, I don’t think. I had to look them up 💜
Aug 31, 2020 @ 17:08:13
You’re welcome.
Aug 31, 2020 @ 18:23:59
💜💜